Super blue moon is out and super bright! And for once it’s not too cloudy in Wellington to see it. Just took my little one out to see it before bedtime.

Seems to have been mostly Wellington, with a few elsewhere. From an archive of their stores page I count:

• Wellington: 14
• Auckland: 2
• Christchurch: 1

This is fucking ridiculous. Who even would you be tipping in this situation? Guarantee that none of the actual workers see a penny of these “tips”, and that it all goes back into corporate budgets.

2FA would probably be part of the answer: whereby you get a text / app notification with a unique code to confirm a transaction. Not always convenient, I pretty much always sigh when having to use them, but at least significantly harder for people to spoof.

I can imagine a future, not that far off, where physical cards are obsolete, and phones are the primary identifying factor in everyday transactions.

But yeah that whole not honoring transactions from a near(ish) to expiry card thing is total BS. I’d be looking to ditch Skinny if that happened to me.